http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Fri, 24 May 2013 05:22:12 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/26645/OpenSUSE_board_to_take_on_big_challenges_in_2013/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26645/OpenSUSE_board_to_take_on_big_challenges_in_2013/ The openSUSE community has elected its new board of directors, who will take office in January 2013. Welcome to Raymond Wooninck and Robert Schweikert, who will have a lot of work ahead of them as the board helps navigate openSUSE through some choppy waters. openSUSE remains one of the most popular Linux distros around, but their delayed release of 12.2 in September has led the team to spend the last six months reworking their development process, and both new members are planning to prioritize improvement of openSUSE's communication strategies as well. Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:45:38 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) SuSE, openSUSE 5 http://www.osnews.com/topics/40 News the_randymon http://www.osnews.com/story/26342/openSUSE_12_2_released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26342/openSUSE_12_2_released/ "The latest release [...] brings you speed-ups across the board with a faster storage layer in Linux 3.4 and accelerated functions in glibc and Qt, giving a more fluid and responsive desktop. The infrastructure below openSUSE has evolved, bringing in newly matured technologies like GRUB2 and Plymouth and the first steps in the direction of a revised and simplified UNIX file system hierarchy." You can download openSUSE 12 from the mirrors. Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:20:17 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SuSE, openSUSE 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/40 News superstoned http://www.osnews.com/story/25341/openSUSE_12_1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25341/openSUSE_12_1_Released/ And another popular Linux distribution pushes a new release out the door. This time around, it's openSUSE, as they just released version 12.1. Other than the usual latest and greatest version of all the open source desktops and associated tools, there's a few other interesting tidbits in this release as well. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SuSE, openSUSE 94 http://www.osnews.com/topics/40 News sb56637 http://www.osnews.com/story/24693/Attachmate_Lets_US_Mono_Developers_Go/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24693/Attachmate_Lets_US_Mono_Developers_Go/ The first major effect of Attachmate buying Novell (and thus, SUSE) has come into, uh, effect. Novell, of course, is the birth place of Mono, the open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework. Reports indicate Mono developers have been fired as part of the streamlining process, but according to Attachmate's CEO, they weren't fired because of Mono. Wed, 04 May 2011 20:41:43 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SuSE, openSUSE 61 http://www.osnews.com/topics/40 News lemur2 http://www.osnews.com/story/24681/Attachmate_Talks_SUSE_Novell_openSUSE/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24681/Attachmate_Talks_SUSE_Novell_openSUSE/ Attachmate now owns Novell and therefore, by extension, also owns SUSE and openSUSE. With Oracle currently doing everything in its power to thoroughly destroy what's left of Sun's open source commitments, scepticism abound about the future of SUSE, and more specifically of openSUSE. Attachmate's CEO has answered some questions about the future of SUSE and openSUSE, and as far as words go, it's looking good. Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:06:55 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SuSE, openSUSE 55 http://www.osnews.com/topics/40 News sjvn http://www.osnews.com/story/24518/Configuring_OpenSUSE_11_4_Repositories/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24518/Configuring_OpenSUSE_11_4_Repositories/ When you install OpenSUSE, one of the first things you may wish to do is to install new applications or support for restricted media playback. To do this, you'll need to configure your repositories. This blog post explains how it's done. Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:29:52 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hadrien Grasland) SuSE, openSUSE 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/40 News bsmith1012 http://www.osnews.com/story/24514/openSUSE_11_4_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24514/openSUSE_11_4_Released/ openSUSE 11.4 is out and is not only the first major linux distro to ship LibreOffice, Firefox 4 and Scribus 1.4 in a release but also brings new cool stuff like Tumbleweed. The community delivers unique technologies around it like SUSE Studio and OBS. Read more about openSUSE 11.4 in the extensive Product Highlights and see screenshots here. Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:25:39 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) SuSE, openSUSE 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/40 News superstoned http://www.osnews.com/story/24155/openSUSE_Q_A_with_Attachmate_CEO_Jeff_Hawn/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24155/openSUSE_Q_A_with_Attachmate_CEO_Jeff_Hawn/ Jos Poortvliet recently had the opportunity to conduct a Q&A with Attachmate CEO Jeff Hawn. They covered openSUSE, SUSE and open source in general. Please see the full text of his interview at news.opensuse.org. Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:19:27 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) SuSE, openSUSE 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/40 News superstoned http://www.osnews.com/story/24104/OpenSUSE_To_Offer_Rolling_Release_Repository/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24104/OpenSUSE_To_Offer_Rolling_Release_Repository/ "In a message to the opensuse-project mailing list, openSUSE developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a new project openSUSE Tumbleweed. openSUSE Tumbleweed will provide a rolling release for those openSUSE users who wishes to have a rolling release. It will essentially be a repo containing the latest stable versions of the applications." Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:49:50 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SuSE, openSUSE 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/40 News Debjit http://www.osnews.com/story/24078/Attachmate_Novell_s_openSUSE_Project_Is_Safe_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24078/Attachmate_Novell_s_openSUSE_Project_Is_Safe_/ "Attachmate says that Novell's openSUSE project will continue to operate as it always has. With Attachmate shelling out $2.2bn acquire Novell, SUSE Linux customers and contributors to the openSUSE project are understandably nervous about what Attachmate is planning for the community development that underpins SUSE Linux." Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:44:07 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SuSE, openSUSE 4 http://www.osnews.com/topics/40 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/23972/openSUSE_Very_Much_Alive/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23972/openSUSE_Very_Much_Alive/ Last week the openSUSE conference took place in Nuremberg, Germany. Instead of deciding to fork a major desktop, the conference focused on 'collaboration across borders' and the results are showing. Fedora visitors worked with openSUSE developers to integrate systemd and dracut in openSUSE 11.4, LibreOffice held their first conference track, project Bretzn (let's make developers' life easier) was announced and it became known that Mageia discusses use of the openSUSE Build Service. Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:11:38 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SuSE, openSUSE 4 http://www.osnews.com/topics/40 News superstoned http://www.osnews.com/story/23589/OpenSUSE_11_3_The_Linux_Distribution_for_KDE_Lovers/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23589/OpenSUSE_11_3_The_Linux_Distribution_for_KDE_Lovers/ Long time fans of openSUSE Linux and its commercial big brother, Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, will find a lot to like in this latest update. Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:07:40 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) SuSE, openSUSE 27 http://www.osnews.com/topics/40 News sjvn http://www.osnews.com/story/23564/OpenSUSE_11_3_Released_Screenshots_and_Features/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23564/OpenSUSE_11_3_Released_Screenshots_and_Features/ The last time OpenSUSE users enjoyed a stable release was in November 2009 making today's release of OpenSUSE 11.3 a pretty big deal. This is the first release in the new eight month release schedule for OpenSUSE. Here are some screenshots of the OpenSUSE 11.3 install, KDE and GNOME desktops, and details about some of the popular new features in this release. Full Story Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:51:04 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) SuSE, openSUSE 14 http://www.osnews.com/topics/40 News a_weber42 http://www.osnews.com/story/23531/Novell_s_SLED11_Service_Pack_1_Review/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23531/Novell_s_SLED11_Service_Pack_1_Review/ Kernel News reviews SuSe Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, SP1. In addition to fixing a lot of problems that plagued the initial SLED 11 release, SP1 includes major software updates. For instance, SLED11 SP1 includes GNOME 2.28 and KDE 4.3.5. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:29:59 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) SuSE, openSUSE 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/40 News mgpeter http://www.osnews.com/story/23474/openSUSE_Linux_Seeks_More_Autonomy_From_Novell/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23474/openSUSE_Linux_Seeks_More_Autonomy_From_Novell/ Ars reports: The developers behind openSUSE are drafting a new "community statement" as part of a broader effort to define a technical strategy for their project. The purpose of the community statement is to describe the kind of collaborative environment that the project wants to create as it refines its technical focus. The full text of the community statement is published in the openSUSE wiki. Additional details about the strategy proposals and community review process are available from the openSUSE News site. Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:15:40 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) SuSE, openSUSE 0 http://www.osnews.com/topics/40 News lopisaur